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===[[The Story Keeper Phoenix of Florence by Anna MazzolaPhilip Kazan]]===
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AudreyDeep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a complex mix of flights of fancy massacre that destroys her family and seriousnesshome. Alone in the forest, wanting, needingshe meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be more than what everyone expects of a boy train and develop her, escapes from – and the straightjacket of her homedetermined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Where every actionAlong the way, every thoughtshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution whose journey to the wind and married way beneath Florence sees him for loveinvestigating two brutal murders. Now a widower As he digs further and remarrieduncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is propershares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the bastion ghosts of doing what is expectedtheir shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Story Keeper Phoenix of Florence by Anna MazzolaPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The ButcherDeviation by Luce d's Daughter by Victoria GlendinningEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for historical fiction because it has such those of you who have not – this can be considered a wealth of intriguenext step. It begins, after all, plots with someone escaping Dachau and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and powerfulyou'd not blame her one minute, with so many to choose from that the well never seems as her career was deemed to run dry be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerGermans. In Munich, or those prepared she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to do anything be a camp for non-native civilians to get there. This booklook for work, howeveror company, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppinor transport elsewhere, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, official or join a conventotherwise. Since Agnes has disgraced herself But then she has no choice at allthe next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeyby then eyebrows are being raised. [[The ButcherDeviation by Luce d's Daughter by Victoria GlendinningEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Count of 9 by David LongridgeErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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As the shadow ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the Second World War descends upon 1950s. It revolves around the planet, four people are explored in a tale detective duo of love Donald Lam and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those theft of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoilpriceless Bornean artefacts. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trustHowever, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themcase quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Silence in the Desert The Count of 9 by David LongridgeErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Hidden by Alison WeirMary Chamberlain]]===
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When it comes Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to Jane Seymour, identify the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the kingmother's eyes. Others view her as a pious possessions, Dora and God-fearing woman who brought calm Joe find their worlds upended – and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage are swiftly forced to Anne Boleynconfront their pasts. Perhaps both sides are trueRevisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, to an extentremembers a time when he hid something very different. In ''The Haunted Queenthis story of love,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' seriesloss and betrayal, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones it remains to be seen whether a speck of a Queen haunted by light can diffuse the shadow darkest shadows of a formidable predecessor. war… [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Hidden by Alison WeirMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name The Turn of Midnight by Marcus DalrympleMinette Walters]]===
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It was about 1509 when At the beginning of 1349 there is a series glimmer of mystical events foreshadowed a hope that the end ravages of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlersBlack Death might be passing. Some thought In Devilish in Dorset the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godpopulation is well, but he was essentially a decent manbecause of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, particularly by which are regarded as heresy as they go against the standards strict rules of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forcechurch, but at the age their stores of twenty three he believed food are dwindling and they know that the expedition in October 1520 was when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesleave. He'd joined What will they find on the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing outside? Are they the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. only survivors? [[In Gold's Name The Turn of Midnight by Marcus DalrympleMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Frieda by James HallAnnabel Abbs]]===
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''The Industry Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about musicmarried life. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the simplest ideas of placesrevolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Max Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Howevertempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their ambition lives, and hubris soon puts them on unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed of literature forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness Frieda by James HallAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer House of Glass by Jon Michael VareseSusan Fletcher]]===
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Jon Michael VareseClara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta''s debut novel was inspired by : these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the life story beginning of the real-twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life father of spirit photographythrough a window and the tales her mother, Charlotte, William Hbrought home. Mumler Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. His fictional stand Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death -in here is Edward Moody, who was of a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady tumour at the age of thirty nine - and now owns his own photography studio in Bostonher wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Moody is dismissive Her growing knowledge of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service tropical plants led to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost offer of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's highjob stocking a newly-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people built glass house at Shadowbrook in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séancesGloucestershire. [[The Spirit Photographer House of Glass by Jon Michael VareseSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionBellewether by Susanna Kearsley|Historical FictionFull Review]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz Scott -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Treachery of Spies by Daniel PeltzManda Scott]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who Inspector Inès Picaut is a part-time guide at called to investigate the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins horrific murder of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiecestrikingly beautiful elderly lady, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs she's puzzled – whilst the attention identity of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristswoman has been erased, but thereit's more too it than clear that she knows, particularly as has been killed in the same way that traitors to the history of resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the building is also mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the Vannini familymen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, who helped Inès discovers that there are many in building the chapel some six hundred years ago present who would rather their past stay buried – and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Treachery of Spies by Daniel PeltzManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Murmuration by Lucy WorsleyRobert Lock]]===
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''Lady MaryMurmuration'' chronicles follows the famous story lives of a host of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce characters from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to Jane Seymoura fortune teller, which finally produces we see the much longed for birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a male heir. This timehint of mysticism to the tale, with the story is told through mesmerising dance of starlings over the eyes of pier acting as an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughteranchor throughout the distinct narratives here, Mary. Mary's hopes drawing together disparate stories of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly lives captivated by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventssea. [[Lady Mary Murmuration by Lucy WorsleyRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Mercy Seat by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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You are In an isolated Louisiana town, a lass young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of twenty eightthe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. PluckyAt midnight, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll he will be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager dead; strapped to save you from a life alone, chair and fired by electrocuted for the rape of a rogueish sense for adventurewhite girl, who later committed suicide. When He is resigned to his fate; it comes is futile to protest his innocence or to suitors thoughexpect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, you'll have to make the ultimate decision love between witty, pretty a black man and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't a white woman was never going to be an easy decision..have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[My Lady's Choosing The Mercy Seat by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield Maitland -->
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In eighteenth century LondonWitchcraft, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance the supernatural and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting will to survive at all costs collide in a mysterious child. Fast forward to story that never shies away from the London darker side of 2015human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and the sisters are still waiting - with no way famine is kindling a resurgence of knowing if the boy is alive or deadold faith. Far away As fear rises, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to keep a secret for two hundred yearsignore that something rotten has taken root. As those years pass byThe sacred well is tainted, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - its healing waters run red with true darkness emerging blood and strangers are blowing in the absence on a wind of deathchange. [[The Parentations A Gathering of Ghosts by Kate MayfieldKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – On a full one-line in a ''Beyond remote volcanic island off the Fringe'' sketchcoast of New Zealand, where he says he has a piece family of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded settlers struggle to prove it was make such an unforgiving place a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting ithome. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of When a lot of hot airship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and only leading to an unwelcome noise, their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when WW2 actually struck anywaya vulnerable boy disappears. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the Nazischild, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such manthey uncover far, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely more than they were looking for – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick discovering dark secrets about both the last, barest threads of the story up island and see just what did happen to himthose who inhabit it. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Mr Peacock's Possessions by David LawsLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king Audrey, a complex mix of flights of the valley; retired Viking farmer fancy and rumoured owner seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of a large hoard her, escapes from the straightjacket of goldher home. He Where every action, every thought, every yearning is gathering controlled by her father, who only once in his clanlife threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It he has rigorously returned to upholding what is time for strengthening family bondsright, feastingwhat is proper, telling tall tales and remembering shared historythe bastion of doing what is expected. [[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Butcher's Daughter by Elizabeth ChadwickVictoria Glendinning]]===
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''Templar Silks'' The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a great example wealth of historical fiction done wellintrigue, plots and machinations. It's a fictitious account The regular cast of William Marshal's time courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death circles of King Baldwin power, or those prepared to leprosy in 1185do anything to get there. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous This book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research, however, is totally different. In this book she goes back to fill Set in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of his lifeAgnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. Her main problemAs a woman she can either marry, as or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she acknowledges has no choice at the end of the bookall, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that she is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none sent to join the lessnuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[Templar Silks The Butcher's Daughter by Elizabeth ChadwickVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Silence in the Desert by Mitchell & MitchellDavid Longridge]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with As the shadow of the news that Charles Stuart is to return to Second World War descends upon the throne as Charles II planet, four people are explored in a tale of Englandlove and friendship. A young womanHenri, Ruth Courtneyfulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, is returning home to her family's farmhouseBill, excited arriving at the prospect Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of a new King. She arrives homehis upbringing, howeverand Elisabeth, to find her home ablaze crossing continents and surrounded changing names are all brought together by renegade soldiersstrife and turmoil. As the war rages, supporters of Cromwellthese men are tested like never before, with trust, her family nowhere loyalty and love leading to be founddecisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Revenge Silence in the Desert by Mitchell & MitchellDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Baghdad Clock Haunted Queen by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a tale of two friends growing up during scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the first and second Iraqi warking's eyes. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by Others view her as a young girl pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to the various characters surrounding the protagonistAnne Boleyn. They Perhaps both sides are full of life and yet never seem to add anything true, to the central narrativean extent. RawiIn ''The Haunted Queen, it would seem'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, has author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a problem with telling Queen haunted by the shadow of a storyformidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Baghdad Clock Haunted Queen by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path In Gold's Name by Katherine ClementsMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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Maybe you've heard It was about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the old coffin path that winds from Aztec Empire and the village inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the moor toppale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the villagers only speak standards of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled the time. He was the finest marksman with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved his harquebus on the grand house and its isolationforce, but a recurrence at the age of strange events begins twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to unsettle herChristianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. From objects disappearing through to He'd joined the army from a shadowy presence sensed in the houseseminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, mysteries come he'd failed to light appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that can only any conversion would not be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretswinning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path In Gold's Name by Katherine ClementsMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Industry of Human Happiness by Sheila LlewellynJames Hall]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and sent foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to fight find music and magic in Burmathe simplest of places. On Max and his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, is sent to younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a military psychiatric hospitalgramophone company. There, he is treated by Daniel CarterHowever, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomycourse towards London's underworld. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences They will ascend broken and find a place in a world moving on from WWIItheir lives changed forever. [[Walking Wounded The Industry of Human Happiness by Sheila LlewellynJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Spirit Photographer by Heather MorrisJon Michael Varese]]===
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SoJon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, you arrive William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in all ignorance at Auschwitzhere is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and see the horror therenow owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, and immediately swear yet considers himself to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get be doing a service to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the extent you get ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out loved one and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of superimposing it on the SSnegative being developed, answerable so that it seems to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building appear hazily in the place, and trade the loot purloined background. Looking back from the incoming victimstoday' belongings with food they smuggle in for yous high-tech perspective, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived it's hard to tell the talesee how anyone could have been fooled, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared suffering people in desperate situations often want to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in believe; the campsame goes for séances. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Spirit Photographer by Heather MorrisJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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